ivory

A trove of elephant tusks found in the cargo hold of an old Portuguese shipwreck is yielding new insights into the…

In news that can only be described as horrific, the BBC reports that some 90 elephants have been killed in Botswana…

Illegal wildlife trafficking tends to evoke images of harshly lit ports and dingy warehouses, but in reality a lot…

In what is being hailed a major victory for elephant conservation, China announced today that it will ban all…

Illegal ivory comes from dead elephants. It comes from elephants that were killed recently, and if you try to argue…

Earlier today, Kenya set ablaze 105 tons of stockpiled ivory in a measure designed to discourage the poaching of…

The online activism network Avaaz has made a name for itself exposing websites complicit in the illegal ivory trade.…

Tracking the movement of ivory through the nebulous, international black market is extraordinarily difficult. But we…

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Jake Wall is a research scientist with Save the Elephants. As part of his work, he followed the travels of one…

Last month, I wrote of an effort by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and others to urge the PBS series Antique…

I'll say it: I love Antiques Roadshow. The look on the faces of folks who find out on national television that their…

If you thought it was hard to get your hands on ivory from animals that still roam the earth, you can imagine the…

This slider cellphone has a shell of ivory, intricately carved with dragon designs. The ivory, harvested from…